"From Mary's bosom both of them have come,"

Sordello said, "as guardians of the valley

Against the serpent, that will come anon."

Whereupon I, who knew not by what road,

Turned round about, and closely drew myself,

Utterly frozen, to the faithful shoulders.

And once again Sordello: "Now descend we

'Mid the grand shades, and we will speak to them;